I'm Back and it's my Birthday

Wow it has been too long since I have blogged. 

I have really been missing it. I miss looking back on things I have written 

in detail about my life with my boys. 

About 8 months ago my laptop broke and lets face it blogging on a phone or iPad is just not going to happen. Lucky for me I have an amazingly sweet husband who bought me a new iMac so I could continue blogging (and other things) 

I really don't want to do much back peddleing but I'm sure I'll do a little bit. 

Right now I'm going to write about my Birthday. 

I found out like a week before that Daniel was going to be gone the week before and week of my Birthday. I was pretty bummed about this.  The day of my Birthday came. Daniel was in Chicago and I woke up that morning thinking I'm not going sit home and wish that I was doing something more fun for my Birthday. 

My boys and I woke up that morning made our favorite breakfast of crepes with strawberries and powdered sugar got dressed and out we went. We drove through Half Moon Bay and made our way down the beautiful 1 highway. Making our destination Santa Cruz Beach boardwalk. 

It was a nice day of 70 degrees with a light breeze. The boys and I went on a few carnival rides and they loved it. Then we rode the skyline checking out all the beautiful fun scenery. After we got some lunch on the boardwalk that was pretty awful tasting but hey can't always have everything go your way even if it is your Birthday. We didn't let it get us down though. Then we made our way to the Pier and got some ice-cream then put our blanket down on the warm sand, played with sand toys and enjoyed the day. 

On the drive home we stopped at one of our favorite Pho places in our old stomping grounds then went downtown Palo Alto and picked up some French Macaroons  went home put the kids to bed from our busy day plopped on the couch and watched the Bachelorette with two of my favorite friends Jane and Hiedi. I'd say it was a pretty amazing day! 

Later in the week all of my best girl friends from down in Palo Alto area and Burlingame area went and got massages and went to dinner at the cutest pizzaria. 

On Friday of that week Daniel finally got home and that night took me to the One Republic concert. It was a pretty amazing Birthday week and I felt special.